Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, tense duel begins, wit to wit and will across will, between the embattled householder and the leering principle of unreason that fists in his refrigerator and lords it on his hearth. Worse still, March soon realizes that the law is no less his enemy than the outlaw; for if the police find out where the criminals are hiding, they are sure to come after them, and when they do, Bogart & Co., as promised, will make sure that March and family die first. The man of the house stands alone, and if he falls, his family falls with him. What...
...great political problems awaiting a solution could be served by means of war." He extended that sentiment to his NATO allies. Since the Kremlin had bade him come and discuss "the normalization of relations," Adenauer laid down his terms. "I do not think it will suffice to outlaw war, to create security systems and to establish, so to speak, in a mechanical way, diplomatic, economic and cultural relations," said Adenauer. Two important Soviet deeds were necessary: ¶The return of Germans still imprisoned in Russia, said by Bonn to number 80,000 to 100,000. "It is an unbearable thought...
Like Hobin Hood, the once pious Man Singh had become an outlaw first because of a fancied injustice. Like Robin's, his crimes were said to be aimed only at the rich and powerful. He was always generous to the widows of those he had killed. and he was just in his own rough way. But as the legend of his terror spread across some 8,000 square miles of Indian territory, a price of $3,000 was put on Man Singh's head. Through the years, the police of four states schemed, connived and risked their lives...
Relentless in his determination to catch the outlaw, Dixit set a specially trained company of Gurkha police combing the jungle for his quarry. As an added precaution, he himself climbed to a mountain shrine in Amarnath to ask help of the god Siva. One day last week, as Man Singh sat resting under a banyan tree near the village of Kakekapura, Siva answered the prayer. A telephone rang in the New Delhi residence of Jawaharlal Nehru, and over it a jubilant voice crowed to India's Prime Minister: "Panditji, this is Home Minister Dixit. We have just killed...
Even the once blameless sex life of the cinema cowboy has been coming in for some sharp scrutiny from European critics. Critic Schein detects a sadistic dislike for women: "In The Outlaw, the young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...